Not every ideology followed by a country has to be exactly how the first philosopher of said ideology envisioned it for it to be considered a part of the same beliefs

Not every communist country has to be the same

truth is that communism has been tried many times

just like how there are spinoffs of any belief system, that doesn't mean that for example the UK and the United States aren't both Representative Republics of course they are

they are just different in a few ways

Marx helped bring complex system thinking into economics, that alone is a huge contribution

The only good thing to come from Marx were a few socialist policies adopted throughout Europe

WE haven't seen anything yet policy wise, most of what he talked about was resisted, even by the "marxists"

the post-Keyesnians are first real attempt and they are fought hard by the Neoliberals

The Communism Meme is like 2% of what Marx talked about

XD

They were all reading the same Communist Manifesto

the same Kapitalism

they all read the same texts

shame they got only 2%

what afucking joke

You can read stuff without practicing it or paying heed to it

I cant believe only 2% of his beliefs were practiced give me the other 98% pls

what was practiced was mostly just using marx as a marketing slogan to grab power

Leninism for example directly went against what marx said about passing through stages

so give me the other 98% of policies not adopted

Entire Bolshevik faction was refutation of some of his main ideas, at least as for as positive action was concerned

Much of what he talked about wasn't policy , it was analysis, building up a framework of system dynamics

They refuted economic and social collectivism and class warfare too?

Marx talked passing through the stages, the Bolsheviks were dramatically opposed to that. The Mensheviks were the 'marxists' and they got kicked out

Thats what the october coup was, the bolsheviks executing a coup against the Mensheviks

Even that isn't to say that many political and economic stances of marxism werent adopted

just because they coup a seperate faction of communists doesnt mean that they wont didn't adopt policies

well that's exactly what happened, the Bolshevik's opposed transitioning Russia into a capitalist economy first

that was what the fight between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks was about

Kerensky lost, Lenin took over, and Bolshevism created the USSR

Lenin and Co were like corrupt people using Jesus as their marketing mascot, but dont care about the poor, pissing on the Beatitudes, etc

Literally the only major difference between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks was the rate of change at which they wanted to progress society

policy wise they were almost entirely similar

that's a big difference, it's like going from ice to steam without becoming water first

Also

Lenin didnt use Jesus as a marketing tool at all

what the fuck is that even supposed to mean

the most Atheistic political group in Russia

It was a comparison

read the line again